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‘Pressure on’ after Chinese breakthrough: Peng Chinese number two Peng Shuai said Li Na’s breakthrough French Open win had ramped up the interest in Chinese tennis — and the pressure. While the focus was initially on world number four Li at Wimbledon, Peng has outlasted her compatriots at the All England Club and said she [...]
1,000 in New Zealand ‘SlutWalk’ Nearly 1,000 people, many of them scantily clad women, joined New Zealand’s “SlutWalk” marches Saturday protesting that victims were not responsible for rape. About 500 marched through the streets of Wellington and more than 400 in Auckland carrying signs that read “Real men take no for an answer” and “A [...]
Aussie WNBA star Jackson faces injury layoff Three-time Women’s NBA Most Valuable Player Lauren Jackson, an Australian star center for the Seattle Storm, will be sidelined for at least three weeks with a left hip injury. The team announced Friday that medical tests had confirmed that Jackson had suffered a labral tear in the hip [...]
The ruling Socialist party’s five-seat majority ensured a victory that will enable Prime Minister George Papandreou to pursue critical reforms required by Greece’s international creditors for a new bailout. There were 155 votes in favour and 143 against, parliament head Filippos Petsalnikos said. Some 4,000 protesters had gathered outside parliament during the vote, part of [...]
Defectors report N.Korea jail abuse A group of 14 North Korean defectors on Tuesday filed a petition with South Korea’s human rights watchdog over abuses they allegedly suffered in two North Korean prisons, a spokesman said. The petition comes as Seoul’s National Human Rights Commission collects cases of human rights violations in the communist state [...]
US ‘likely’ to pull out 10,000 Afghanistan troops: source President Barack Obama will “likely” withdraw about 10,000 US troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, with half coming out this summer and the remainder leaving later in 2011, a senior US defense official said Tuesday. Another 20,000 troops, which formed part of a [...]
Hundreds of services were cancelled Tuesday in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra but the threat of prolonged disruption eased as the ash from the Puyehue volcano eruption pushed out towards the Tasman Sea and New Zealand. “The ash cloud affecting eastern Australia has cleared, and airlines are returning to normal operations Wednesday afternoon,” said the [...]
Li cruises into Wimbledon second round China’s French Open champion Li Na reached the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday with a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 win over Russia’s Alla Kudryavtseva. Third seed Li, the first Asian to win a Grand Slam singles title in Paris, next faces either Germany’s Sabine Lisicki or Anastasija Sevastova for [...]
China seeks better military ties with India China said Tuesday it hopes to boost military cooperation with India as the two Asian powerhouses resume defence ties that were frozen for a year over a visa dispute. An Indian military delegation arrived in the Chinese capital on Sunday for a six-day visit that is expected to [...]
“Tonight’s vote in the Greek Parliament removes an element of uncertainty from an already very difficult situation. That is good news for Greece and for the European Union as a whole,” Barroso said in a statement issued just minutes after the early Wednesday vote. He exhorted Papandreou and his government to “focus all their efforts [...]